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Alastair Campbell

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[Wikipedia] Alastair John Campbell is a British journalist, author, strategist, broadcaster, and activist. Campbell worked as Tony Blair's spokesman and campaign director in opposition (1994–1997), then as Downing Street Press Secretary, and as the Prime Minister's Official Spokesperson (1997–2000). He then bec

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There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

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Been

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The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

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Bad thing

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I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most…

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Candle

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My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his…

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Animal

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The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

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First

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Tony [Blair] slowly sucked me back in for the 2005 campaign, and from six months out, I was basically working full time…

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Awful

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In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

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Film

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